[KL7AA] Field Day 2008 - Kincaid Park

[Jim Larsen - AL7FS]

I would like to encourage you all to take time to come out to the AARC 
Field Day site at Kincaid Park out Raspberry Road this Saturday and also on 
Sunday morning.  Take enough time to operate one of the stations and just 
have fun.

If you are new to all this, the experienced operators will break you in on 
the second headset and let you help log.  After a while you will be all set 
to try the microphone.

We could also use a few CW operators.

73, Jim
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Jim Larsen, AL7FS,  http://www.AL7FS.us/
Anchorage, Alaska,  (907) 345-3190
Vice President, Anchorage ARC,  http://www.kl7aa.net/
Alaska Section Manager, ARRL,  http://www.arrl.org/sections/AK.html
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Field Day 2008


WHEN:  June 28 – 29, 2008

WHERE: Kincaid Park, Anchorage, Alaska

KL7AA

When trouble is brewing, ham radio people are often the first to provide 
critical information and communications. On the weekend of June 28 - 29, 
the public will have a chance to meet and talk with these ham radio 
operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. 
Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications 
and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding 
public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities.

This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long 
"Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the National Association for 
Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will 
construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back 
yards around the country. Their slogan, "When all else fails…”is more than 
just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms 
without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that 
can be compromised in a crisis. More than 30,000 amateur radio operators 
across the country participated in last year's event.

"We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your 
grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL. "The 
communications networks that ham radio people can quickly create have saved 
many lives in the past months when other systems failed or were overloaded.”

In the Anchorage area, the Amateur Radio Emergency Services group and the 
Anchorage Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Kincaid 
Park. We invite the public to come and see ham radio’s capabilities and 
learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.

There are 660,000 Amateur Radio operators in the US , and more than 2.5 
million around the world. Through the ARRL, ham volunteers provide 
emergency communications for the DHS Citizens' Corps, the American Red 
Cross, Salvation Army, FEMA and thousands of state and local agencies, all 
for free.

Come out to see the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Amateur Radio 
Emergency Services equipment and setup.  For further information or if you 
have questions, please contact our team leaders TJ Sheffield, KL7TS and 
Keith Clark, KL7MM.  TJ can be reached at kl7ts (at) hotmail.com and Keith 
can be reached at aksunlite (at) aol.com.